Improvement in spring-powers



V. MOESLEIN.

Spring-Pnwer.

No. 167,009, Patented Aug. 24,1875.

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VALENTINE MOESLEIN, OF WATERLOO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRING-POWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,009., dated August 24, 1875; application filed June 5, 1875. Y

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VALENTINE MOESLEIN, of Waterloo, Monroe county, Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Spring-Power, of which the following is a specification My invention is a contrivanoe of double but independent springs in a spring-power apparatus, so that both work together to drive one and the same train, and each can be wound up independent of the other, whereby one may be wound up when the other is partly run out, and vice versa, making aregular and uniform continuous power.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved spring-power, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the driving-wheels and its ratchet mechanism.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Arepresents the spring; B, the shaft; 0, the driving-wheel; E, the ratchet, and F the pawl of each apparatus, both being arranged in the sameaxis, with the wheels 0 fronting each other, alittle distance apart, so that both may gear with the pinion G of the transmitting-train on opposite sides of the masterwheel H. The two spring-shafts are 0011- neoted by a stud, I, of one entering a socket of the other, and forming a coupling which.

allows one to be turned independently of the other. 

